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BERLIN - Germany's Muslims and Jews have joined hands to protest a court ruling banning circumcision, calling for a legal protection of the religious ritual. We consider this to be an affront (to) our basic religious and h ...

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ABUJA - More than 100 people were burnt to death, including women and children, in an oil tanker fire in southern Nigeria on Thursday, July 12, in the latest catastrophe in Africa's most populous African country. More than ...

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KARACHI - As the clock is ticking for Muslims worldwide to welcome the holy fasting month, Pakistan's various religious and literary organizations have kicked off “ Istaqbal-e-Ramadan” (Welcome Ramadan) programs across the So ...

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CAIRO - The holy fasting month of Ramwadan will start on Friday, July 20, according to astronomical calculations.“The Ramadan moon will be born on Thursday, July 19,” Hatem Ouda, chairman of Egypt's National Research Insti ...

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CAIRO - Differences on the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan are forcing Muslim minorities across Europe to turn to modern astronomy to help determine the first day of the fasting month. In the modern world, especiall ...

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Amid Israeli denial of involvement in his demise, new suspicions that iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death was caused by poison have triggered calls for a new autopsy to determine the cause of ...

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CAIRO - Public enmity to mosques and a crunching economic crisis are stalling plans to build Muslim worship places in Greece, forcing worshippers to go underground to fulfil their religious duties. All the other religions ...

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ABUJA - Poverty, inequality and injustice are threatening to trigger a broad sectarian conflict between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, an international task force said on Wednesday, July 11. There is a possibility that ...

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CAIRO - A public execution of an Afghan woman on accusations of adultery is inviting a storm of outrage across Afghanistan, with Muslim scholars condemning the practice as running against the teachings of Islam. The true [ ...

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CAIRO - Described by the UN as one of the world's most persecuted minorities, Myanmar's ethnic-Bengali Muslims, generally known as the Rohingyas, are facing a catalogue of discrimination in their homeland.They have been de ...

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12 May 2012 Work on Australia's first Islamic Museum, to be built in Melbourne, will begin in August after a $1.5 million grant ...

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25 June 2012 The Dutch Muslim Party (NMP) has folded because the time is not ripe for a Muslim party in parliament.

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11 June 2012 Australia has gone from the second most hated country among Indonesians to the second most loved, according to ann ...

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26 May 2012 New York City police did not violate New Jersey laws when they conducted surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques ...

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12 May 2012 Fifteen U.S. Muslims, including four military veterans, are suing the federal government, alleging they were placed ...

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17 April 2012 The United Nations expressed alarm on Monday after reports saying that rebels had pillaged and looted the Ahmad B ...

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10 April 2012 To address some of the pressing issues in the country, a coalition of Muslims organizations in Nigeria is organiz ...

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CAIRO - Arab women and men favor Islamic Shari`ah to play a bigger role in legislation in their countries and that devout men are more likely to support women's rights than those who are less religious, a new survey has found ...

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CAIRO - The largest mosque in the Australian state of Victoria has sparked a controversy by calling on Muslim women to encourage husbands to take polygamous wives instead of divorce. We are deeply concerned by the advice p ...

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Vienna: Austria has celebrated the completion of 100 years of Law on Islam in the country as the religion is one of the recognized religions of Austria. By Farhan Iqbal